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Big Lots is a recent addition to Green Bay Plaza, having opened in 2010, after relocating from the former Kohl's supermarket in the Lombardi Plaza.
I love tinted linen postcards for their otherworldly hues. I picked up a few on a recent excursion to the Antique Gallery in Spring, TX.
Simply a great card.
These four-engined British jets are very popular for their quiet and smooth ride, and their ability to take off and land on short runways and high altitudes. At one time, these BAe146 aircraft were operated in the US by PSA, AirCal, Aspen, Royal West, and Presidential. This one is operated by Air Wisconsin Airways Corporation (AWAC), doing business as United Express.
Built in phases between 1911 and 1959, this Prairie and Organic Modern-style house and office were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to serve as his family residence and studio, with two fires leading to substantial reconstruction of the house in 1914 and 1925. The house, which is named “Taliesin”, Welsh for “Shining Brow” or “Radiant Brow”, referring to the hill upon which it is situated, is a long and rambling structure with multiple sections built at different times, with the building serving as a living laboratory for Wright’s organic design philosophy, as well as growing with Wright’s family, wealth, and business. The house sits on a hill surrounded by fields, but is notably located below the top of the hill, which Wright saw as being such a significant feature of the landscape that it should remain untouched by the house’s presence. The house’s westernmost wings served as the home of livestock and farm equipment, as well as a garage, later becoming housing for the Taliesin Fellowship, where aspiring architects apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright. The central wing served as the Frank Lloyd Wright studio, where Wright and his apprentices and employees worked on projects for clients, as well as where Wright often met with clients. The eastern wing served as the Wright family’s residence, and was rebuilt twice, in 1914 and 1925, after being destroyed by fire, and is overall the newest section of the complex, though some portions of the west and central wings were added after the main phase of construction of the residence was complete.
The house is clad in stucco with a wooden shingle hipped and gabled roof, with stone cladding at the base and on piers that often flank window openings, large casement windows, clerestory windows, outdoor terraces and balconies, stone chimneys, and glass french doors, all of which connect the interior of the building to the surrounding landscape. The interior of the buildings feature vaulted ceilings in common areas, stone floors, stone and plaster walls, decorative woodwork, custom-built furniture, and multiple decorative objects collected by Wright during his life. The exterior of the house has a few areas distinctive from the rest of the structure, with a cantilevered balcony extending off the east facade drawing the eye towards the surrounding landscape from the living room of the residence, next to a large set of glass doors that enclose the living room and adjacent bedroom from a shallower cantilevered terrace, while to the west of the residence, and south of the central wing, is a landscaped garden, which rests just below the crest of the hill.
The building was the full-time home of Wright from 1911 until 1937, when Wright began to spend his winters at Taliesin West in Phoenix, Arizona, due to the effects of the Wisconsin winters on his health. For the rest of Wright’s life, the house was the summer home of Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship, and following his death, the house was deeded to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which operated and maintained the house as a museum and the home of multiple programs until 1990. Since 1990, the house has been under the stewardship of the nonprofit Taliesin Preservation Inc., which operates the house in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. The building is a contributing structure in the Taliesin Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. Taliesin was one of eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings listed as The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2019. Today, Taliesin is utilized as a museum, offering tours and interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life and work.
Built in 1937, this Streamline Moderne or Art Moderne-style building was designed by Lawrence Monberg for Dr. Abraham Quisling, and is known as Quisling Towers. The building is one of three notable Art Moderne-style buildings designed by Monberg for the Quisling family, whom were prominent physicians of Norwegian descent in Madison during the mid-20th Century. The building originally housed twenty-six apartment units, and despite a few systems and features being modernized, the building retains most of its historic character-defining elements. The building was built of fire resistant hollow clay tile, a common building material at the time, with plaster on the interior and buff brick cladding with terra cotta and bedford limestone trim on the exterior obscuring the structural material. The building sits on a sloped site, being six stories in height in the rear, along a private drive off of Wisconsin Avenue, and five stories in the front, along Gilman Street.
The building features a buff brick exterior with corner bands of windows featuring horizontal fins that create strong visual horizontal emphasis at the building’s corners, with casement, one-over-one double-hung, and fixed windows being present on various parts of the building. The building’s front entrance is along Gilman Avenue, flanked by low stone walls and featuring a suspended semi-circular aluminum canopy above, with semi-circular door handles and sidelights. The building’s facade is broken by thin belt coursing at the top and bottom of the windows on most of the floors, which features soldier brick courses between the second and third floors. At the base of the building and at the terraces, there are thick bands of trim with flutes that are aligned horizontally, further de-emphasizing the building’s verticality, with a stepped retaining wall at the basement light well along Wisconsin Avenue also featuring the same trim cap. On the fifth floor, the building has corner setbacks, which are home to rooftop terraces, two-story “tower” sections with curved brick piers flanking curved brick balconies with large fixed storefronts and french doors at the balconies, and stacked bond and soldier brick framing the storefronts. The fifth floor is the smallest, consisting of the “tower” with the curved brick piers and balconies on the floor below, as well as a setback section to the northeast, with two large roof terraces on the rooftop of the building’s fourth floor at the northeast end of the building. The rooftop terrace is enclosed by a modern wire safety railing, and features curved corners, following the curved corners of the fourth floor below. The rear of the building features recessed balconies enclosed by low brick walls on the exterior, which have had their views of the State Capitol blocked by an adjacent building constructed several decades later.
The building’s interior features plaster walls with a lobby featuring curved walls and a linoleum floor, recessed radiators, simple stone fireplace surrounds, curved staircases with metal handrails, art deco-style pendant and sconce light fixtures, and kitchens with the original cabinets, subway tile wall cladding, built-in cutting boards, and tile countertops. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, owing to its architectural significance. The building today is one of the most distinctive buildings on the Downtown Madison isthmus, and is an excellent example of Art Moderne architecture, and is the best preserved of the three significant Monberg-designed buildings from the time period in the Mansion Hill district. The building remains in use as a rental apartment building.
Taken with the Canon EOS 1D and the Canon EF 70-210 f4. Lakeside at Lake Tomah days before the impending drawdown. A peaceful evening. I am working on intentionally using telephoto for compression of view. Delightful vignetting at f4.
"Greetings from Mandalay Lounge and Bar, Hotel Racine; Racine, Wis. The Midwest's Newest and Finest. Delightfully cool and refreshing, with modern air conditioning - Distinctive Burmese surroundings. A showplace for discriminating people."
By the looks of things they discriminated against everybody ... bartenders, lounge lizards or patrons of any sort.
USS Wisconsin
Norfolk, Virginia
Measuring 887 feet 3 inches, the USS Wisconsin is nationally significant as a representation of the culmination of American naval engineering in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as for her participation in World War II, the Korean War, and the Persian Gulf War.
Authorized by Congress on July 6, 1939 and launched on December 7, 1943, the Wisconsin is one of four completed Iowa-class fast battleships, among the last built by the United States Navy. Freed from the weight and armament constraints of the Washington Treaty of 1922 and the London Conference of 1930, the Iowa-class ships are the largest American battleships ever built. Originally intended to engage Japanese surface vessels during WWII, the Iowa-class ships were built for speed and were heavily armed and armored.
National Register of Historic Places Homepage
Tornado damage in our neighborhood - Eagle, Wisconsin
This is the house with the dresser and mirror - they got it on both sides.
Wisconsin Dells, WI (Columbia County)
Wisconsin Dells is a city in south-central Wisconsin, with a population of 2,678 people as of the 2010 census. It straddles four counties: Adams, Columbia, Juneau, and Sauk. The city takes its name from the Dells of the Wisconsin River, a scenic, glacially formed gorge that features striking sandstone formations along the banks of the Wisconsin River. Together with the nearby village of Lake Delton, the city forms an area known as "The Dells", a popular Midwestern tourist destination.
Because of the scenery provided by the dells of the Wisconsin River, Kilbourn City quickly became a popular travel destination in the Midwest. In 1856, Leroy Gates began taking tourists on boat tours of the Wisconsin Dells. These tours were given using wooden rowboats until 1873 when the first steamboat, the Modocawanda, was used. In 1875, early landscape photographer H. H. Bennett established a studio in the city and took many photos of the sandstone formations in the dells, including stereoscopic views. Prints of these photographs were distributed across the United States, further enhancing the status of Kilbourn City as a destination for sightseers. Taking advantage of this, Bennett began offering to take souvenir pictures of visitors to the dells, becoming one of the first to capitalize on the area's burgeoning tourist trade. Today, the H. H. Bennett Studio is an historic site operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society. (1)
References (1) Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Dells,_Wisconsin
Image from the bishop's Visitation to St. Thomas Church, Neenah-Menasha, Wisconsin on sunday, April 21, 2013.
Chief Warrant Officer 5 Troy Bittner, the Wisconsin Army National Guard's command chief warrant officer, congratulates the latest Officer Candidate School and Warrant Officer Candidate School graduates Oct. 17 at the Wisconsin National Guard's 426th Regiment (Regional Training Institute), Fort McCoy, Wis. Wisconsin National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Katie Theusch
Photos from the Wisconsin Arboretum, a 1200 acre nature preserve managed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Golden Dragon Restaurant
3158 South 27th Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The restaurant seemed a little bland from across the street, but the incredible water features beneath the windows blew my mind. I don't see design like this in typical, mid-century restaurants and wish it still worked. The location of the foo dogs was likely a pond with greenery of some kind. I can only imagine.
Our Black Cab is a very rich blend of blackberries and Cabernet Sauvignon to make a semi sweet table wine. Black Cab is best paired with pork, roast lamb, or a great steak. This wine will complement the richness of your main dish best at just cooler than room temperature. This wine is 12% alcohol by volume.
I am presenting both of my books at the Wisconsin Book Festival. Come join me on Friday November 9th from 5-6:00pm in the Capitol Theater of the Overture Center in Madison. I will be doing some indoor kite flying followed by short slide show and talk. The entire event is free and should be lots of fun.